Moving out - Take router with me?

TrojanWhore

TrojanWhore

TrojanWhore

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Hi all,

Background: I've been living in a shared house for the last five years with friends and am now in the process of buying a flat.

We had a period a few years ago where we had real issues getting Wi-Fi to the bedrooms upstairs, was previously using powerline networking, but after a power surge the cabling was not good enough for these to be fast/stable enough for gaming and especially steam in home streaming.

I bought an Asus ac87u, which has been doing the job just fine for the last few years (picked it up for <£80 in the purple shirt emporium clearance bin), and at the time, I said I would probably want to take it with me when I moved on, but that I would replace it with something lesser, but better than the ISP supplied units (I'd originally gone out with the intention of buying a 55/56U, so something similar level).

important point to note is that 5GHz doesn't get upstairs very well, so our PCs are connected to the 2,4GHz radio of the 87u, which I think maxes at 600Mbps, usually indicating just north of 100 for the link speed in the router management page for each PC.

so basically, I'm on the fence on what I want to do:

- offer to sell the current router to my housemate, I was thinking around £40-50, then pick up something that should be 'enough' for my new flat (I'll be trying to hardwire my PC there but not sure how difficult that will be yet, will need Wi-Fi for other devices though)
- Offer to sell the current router to my housemate as above, but get a higher end device for myself (I was looking at the Linksys WRT32X as it's on the book place for just over £100 at the moment)
- Take my router with me and get something lower range for my house mate (£50 range, £70 max -suggestions please!)

My hesitation with the last option is that I spend almost as much money and leave him with a network that he perceives as 'not good enough' and keeps chasing me to spend more and more on his network until it's back at the level it is now....

Any thoughts very welcome!

Cheers,
Trojan.
 
TrojanWhore said:
My hesitation with the last option is that I spend almost as much money and leave him with a network that he perceives as 'not good enough' and keeps chasing me to spend more and more on his network until it's back at the level it is now....
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why would you be under any obligation (other than it's a mate) to make his network 'good enough'. you say you stipulated at the time you bought the router that you'd want to take it with you so just take it, let your mate buy a new router wherever he wants.

edit: why did you even say you'd replace it once you take it - that makes no sense unless your mate chipped in at the time of purchasing?
 
Thanks for your replys, as well as the router, while I was trying to get the network up to speed I bought a couple of AC network adapters - one USB, which he now has and was around £30 and a TP link archer PCIe card (around £50 I think), which is in my PC, as well as a 5 port 1G switch and some cables.

Should have explained better (rushed post!) - To offset the overall cost to me at the time, he paid my share of the ISP bill for a few months, totalling around £50, hence the obligation to leave him with something better, which is why I made a point at the time to set the expectation that I would take the router with me. This was because he did not want me running cables around the house, which was the solution I preferred.

Now wishing I'd more clearly defined which parts I had put the cost towards at the time, but oh well, what's done is done.

Also not discounting the fact that I may be being a bit soft on the whole thing as for the sake of £50 I couldn't be bothered to get in an argument over it (and I'm generally not assertive enough in a lot of aspects of my life, but that's another issue entirely!)
 
So keep life simple and buy yourself a new router for the flat. I doubt I even bother trying to charge him for it, but that's up to you.

I wouldn't buy anything until you've tried the ISP supplied router as you may find that it's good enough.
 
Just leave the router there. It was £80 three years ago, how much is your time worth to source and pay for a replacement and set it up?
 
You may be right, while I only paid around £80 for it, they are still over £160 new which is why I was thinking I would take it with me, but it may be too much hassle.

Thanks
 
to be honest .. you paid your rent kept it clean .. the router is yours .. just take it it's up to your m8 to sort his own stuff out ..
would you leave your girlfriend behind ?
 
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